Merge branch 'renovate/alpine-k8s-1.x' into 'main'

Update alpine/k8s Docker tag to v1.27.1

See merge request !525

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ include:
 
 .use_kubernetes:
   image:
-    name: alpine/k8s:1.26.3
+    name: alpine/k8s:1.27.1
     entrypoint: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
   before_script:
     - kubectl config get-contexts